Guild Wars 2

Draygo.9473:

Basically its up to you, the matchups can continue to be the same until a server is willing to double team for an edge.

EBay and ET focused Kaineng and the result is another week of EBay/Kain/ET…

Looks like it doesn’t work everytime…

And what would the other 70 active players from server A and the other 30 from server B do? Play EotM? I know its frustrating to be outnumbered all the time, but your idea really is an unfair solution to the community as whole.

Maybe if all the walls become indestructible (since none of the other keeps have walls), it will be much easier to do defend even against the devourer army, since they have low HP, and 2-3 superior ACs can melt them very quick…

PVT armor, trooper (ex-soldier) runes, and shout build… Works fine for any of the two…

If you want somenthing more specific, you should look on these classes subforum.

Fighting your way up from the bottom of the barrel can be a glorious achievment…

Join us and help to make it happen!

I like playing defense. My only problems with it are Omega Golem Rushes and a big zerg being able to destroy the gate without siege…

But the rewards are from little to none, which make defending quite a thankless task.

Just as it was already said on another thread about this… Even if the servers could actually handle it, how long you would think it would take for friendly players to start griefing and make the game a hell by blocking doors?

Hell, I can barely see the banker NPC in divinity’s reach with players in a cluster… if all these people couldn’t stack it would be even worse…

Aomine.5012:

You’re talking about the GVG map back in GW1 right?
Those are quite awesome, and I’d like to see them at least in pvp map.
Too bad Anet doesn’t use the good things that’re already there and decided to add crappy things like Sky Hammer.

Could be worse… We could have skyhammer cannon on wvw…

Zero Requiem.5908:

even with all the JQ qqing and propaganda at the end of the day player for player BLACKGATE is still MUCH BETTER than jq. end of story

Then why BG keep posting threads like this one?

Dude, wait for the leagues to end and it will go on semi-random again… The leagues end at May 30th.

Tier Three Human Cultural [Boob]

King Amadaeus.8619:

CuRtoKy.8576:

Two words: Match Manipulation

2013 #1 catchphrase in Forums: Believegate
2014 obviously will be: Match Manipulation.

#BGtears is also very close to Match Manipulation in these forum nowadays.

Atherakhia.4086:

More people on the conspiracy bandwagon… that the reason no one can find a use for a Ranger is because every Ranger they’ve ever seen was bad.

Pretty low opinion of your server’s commanders and guilds if you honestly don’t think they could come up with some role for the class to play over 2 years.

Couldn’t possibly be that the class has legitimate issues. No. Never that. Oh wait! I’ve got it! YAK SLAPPER!

Sorry, a thief can do it faster and better…

Meglobob.8620:

Yeah, sadly its just filler between living storys…

If they had made the Mistforged weapons ascended quality instead of exotic then servers would have probably stacked a server a lot harder to get them, with more PvE players on the queue to WvW for the karma/exp/gold and their shiny new weapons instead of actually enjoying the game mode for what it was designed for: PvP.

But as it is now, feels like everyone is just going through the motions, largely because everyone knows every servers finishing place give or take a position or two.

FTFY

Sreoom.3690:

Man this topic keeps coming up…and still the Moderators will lock it….like a seven headed hydra.

Hey Moderators, do you think that your customer base WANTS to have this discussion?

No dude, we don’t want… If BG shut up about this kittening 2v1, this issue will not be brought up by anyone else, even when we know that it happen on other tiers…

Well, since “the server that shall not be named” was named already, I think it’s time to close this ‘matchup thread’, no?

Aeolus.3615:

Some servers already doing this in WvW….most of time is only on the last wvw day

When the matchup is pretty much decided, there is absolutely no reason to spend money on upgrades and siege to defend…

But I belive he meant if we just K-Train the whole week, like people do in EotM…

Charak.9761:

..and we all just karma trained around the maps and just ignored all the zerg fights.

Then maybe, WvW would get the re-work it needs.

You described EotM…

Did EotM received any changes? No, right? So it won’t work…

garland.5193:

Except for sometimes being feared off siege, I almost never see a Necro.

The reason I asked this is that I have a necro I don’t know what to do with, never found the right niche. I know they supposed to be valuable for zergs, so I’m thinking about giving it a shot.

Yeah, you don’t usually have much necros in the organized GWEN… Problably 2 or 3 at best for a 20 man group.

Boonstriping and condi pressure

Condition damage affect the conditions you apply with siege. Power however, does not…

Isaac.6041:

Well you definitely want it before mercenary’s bane.

Nah… Mercenary Bane help solo the camps without needing to flip the mercenary camp…

Its more like Henge of Denravi 2012…

Off-hour, Prime-time, really we don’t care what time you play! There is always somenthing to do all times here on ET.

And we don’t face the same people over and over even when the tournament isn’t on? Most tiers are kinda locked, and if you can’t beat FC/DR you can’t expect to beat anyone else that isn’t ET/EBay (Maybe you can beat AR but really, I don’t think so).

Giving up to participate just because “You’re bored of facing the same people” is a poor excuse as the only way to face other servers is either going up on ranks (going down isn’t a option for us as we are the bottom of the barrel) or transferring off. Both options simply hurt the server and the people that decided to keep playing…

And that’s why we keep fighting, even if we can’t beat Kain/AR/EBay or whatever Anet decide to throw at us. To improve in order of chaging our current situation and then, be able to face new oponents.

Now, on a side note: please stop using this thread and use our “official thread”.

Well, WvW guilds that do PvE aswell are known as PvX… Check on the recruitment threads as azizul and see if you find a guild/server where you might fit.

Rangerdeity.5847:

your asking to upset the entire foundation of WvW and its balance for a the lols of a few roamers

What balance?

But yeh… Krisztian dude, you’re drunk… Go home…

Roy.7405:

But no queue on Obsidian Sanctum? I’m not impressed.

They don’t know about GvG yet…

FearedbytheGods.8617:

A lot of people in WvW would frown on the introduction of more NPC’s being added.

Having said that I’m not familiar the Ice/Tree God of WoW.

They were OP… That’s all you need to know.

Alterac Valley these days is just a rush-to-lord-fest that last like 10 minutes at best…

Jayden Ennok.3687:

I guess I am the only one who made new characters of same class as my main to actually have low rank chars in wvw – more fun cos people didn’t run away from me when they saw the rank. Oh yeah, this is my official accound bound wxp QQ.

~ proud owner of 4 thieves ~

Dude, you being a Thief is already enough reason to make most zerglings to try run away from you (would be worse if you were a mesmer), your rank wouldn’t matter…

Reborn.2934:

I could easy answer to this “If you want more npcs there is always pve.” with this “If you want pure pvp there is always the spvp” , but i will not do it , because most of the players think that www is just pvp.

+1 solely because of that part, I don’t even care about the rest.

I don’t know why they didn’t turned the centaur and the skritt camp in somenthing like the hyleks/ogres/dregde already… We used to have the quaggan nodes when we had the lake, but really, the quaggans added nothing compared to the EB mercenary camps (which isn’t much anyway, but it help you to defend the camp from a small group, and if left alone, they can take an enemy unupgraded camp by themselves).

And since we’re speaking of these… Fix the ogres! They just spawn the first wave and then stay dead until the camp is reverted to neutral and captured again… The other two camps keep sending waves until neutralized, so I assume the ogres are supposed to be the same.

Skady.5916:

If you like defending in EOTM “because its fun” do the following:
1. Find any tower/keep of your color
2. Build an AC
3. Watch for train to come flip it
4. Optional: get some bags
5. Inevitable: die when they break in

Hope it helps

I disagree that 5 is inevitable… But you will need friends for that ofc. Today, me and other two guildies held Tyrone’s Perch for a whole matchup (4 hours) against endless hordes that overgrowth kept throwing at us, and some occasional Frostreach that were trying to not starve (FR never recapped their keep, because OG and BL were constantly at their side).

Jackmo.3428:

Kawa get off the forums and go command

noplz.

I’m leveling my new mesmer.

Mindless Zerg [EotM]

If its a golem, this rule do not apply.
If you left the map at some point and came back later, the rule no longer apply.
Structural siege (such as oil, cannon and mortars) do not apply to this rule aswell.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Forum infractions.

Nah… Good forum warriors don’t get infracted, because they don’t just go around posting senseless insults like “Forum Trolls” do.

I’m impressed that no one from NSP listed Birdsong… I can say he’s at least entertaining on the forums.

You’re making a pony cry for not listing Birdsong.

Darius.1430:

Are WvW map limits based on per server, or a designated number slots regardless of your server?

They are based per server… So if the limit is 100, each server can field up to 100 people on that map. If one server has a queue, it doesn’t mean the others will have a queue aswell…

Darius.1430:

Dayra.7405:

Darius.1430:

It depends on your definition of “Good”
…

No idea how it is in NA, but in EU it is sufficient to win, if you have 150 people from 0:00-8:00 CET and NOT ONE at any other time.

ET would not know what to do if we ever had 150 people on at any time… we would be so confused, at least initially LOL. I think if we ever ran into a queue, the admins would be flooded with trouble tickets from everyone thinking something is broken.

We had a 10 man queue for EB this reset for at least 2 or 3 hours…

mango.9267:

Kinda sad that the first guild to come to your mind for IoJ only has ~5 members or something, but the Buns do have a more active forum presence than most of the server.

Well, I fought IoJ for like 3 weeks while I was still on Blackgate… The only guilds I know from IoJ (including the BUNS) aren’t originally from IoJ (which are DI and Mend, that both were part of Eredon Terrace at some point). And as you said, they have more forum presence (from which I know them mostly)

Sube Dai.8496:

Assassin X.8573:

This post has been brought to you by the proud sponsors of Whine and those who cannot compete. In conjuction with unfair advantages.

In all reality,
1 it is not hard nor does it take long to obtain these buffs. 2 it is available to everyone so it is not exclusive.
3 if you do not enjoy the game play because you do not have/want to take the time to get the buffs, then find another game play style that conforms to your type of game play enjoyment.

Doesn’t take long? I’ve been playing since launch I haven’t got AS yet…

Well, other than the weapon, ascended gear only give a minor stat bonus (The weapon give 5% more damage than exotics and that reflect on the damage of the skills)… Also ascended trinkets can be purchased with laurels, that you can easily get even if you only do wvw.

Ascended armor is a luxury I don’t care about, and I can still be competitive with the “full ascended heroes” out there… And I run some cheap nourishments that don’t even cost 2s each.

So in the end, all this cry about the buffs really is just about a minor stat boost, which implies in a L2Play issue instead of pointing a imbalance…

P.S: But I kinda agree that bloodlust should go…

When you hear/read a server name, what’s the first tag that come to your head? It doesn’t need to be the most famous, or the one you think that is more awesome. The only rule is not post your own guild tag (and try to avoid posting tags that no longer belong to that server).

Blackgate: [ICoa] Imperial Coalition
Jade Quarry: [SF] Strike Force
Tarnished Coast: Sorry, can’t remember any tag other than [Doly], which i don’t know the guild name (And Doly isn’t TC exclusive as far as I remember)
Sea of Sorrows: Can’t remember any tag either (I didn’t faced SoS much)
Maguuma: [Ark] Arkham ([PYRO] Pyromancers came to mind at same time…)
Dragonbrand: No tags for this one too (I think I never faced DB, or at least i can’t remember)
Henge of Denravi: [VLK] Valkyria Immortalis
Fort Aspenwood: No tag for FA too
Stormbluff Isle: [Abys] Eternal Abyss
Yak’s Bend: [FoW] Footsteps of War
Isle of Janthir: [BUNS] (I don’t remember the exact guild name, but if you know the tag, you know who they are)
Northern Shiverpeaks: [Os] Os Guild
Crystal Desert: Sorry, never fought CD
Borlis Pass: [BS] Borlis Savers (I never actually fought BP, but I’ve seen this tag a lot while doing sPvP and PvE)
Sanctum of Rall: I’m sorry SoR, but the only guild tag I could remember no longer belong to your server ([Choo] Pain Train Choo)
Gate of Madness: [ASH] Phoenix Ascendant
Sorrow’s Furnace: [CoSA] Core of Sapphire/Scarlet/Shamrock Alliance
Devona’s Rest: [Ohai] (I think it’s Beastly Beasts? Can’t remember)
Darkhaven: [JPGN] Jupongatana (I would name [ANBU] Anbu Ops or [BRL] Brazilian Legion, but both bandwagoned to HoD)
Ferguson’s Crossing: [Yarr] Tyrian Pirates Guild
Anvil Rock: [TFH] The Fluttering Horde
Kaineng: …
Ehmry Bay: [oG] Onyx Guard
Eredon Terrace: [TAC] Tactical Terror

Judging all the posts on the thread, Coverage is winning by far…

No one was expecting HoD to win this league dude, everyone thought that FA had this one in the bag and that IoJ would be second… Most people that stacked there were disgruntled people from other silver league servers and people from bronze servers that wanted to go for a higher ranked server…

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

Is siege bunker that useless?

5% minus damage is kinda… meh… And its 75 rank points which can be better spent elsewhere first.

King Stinkeye.3560:

Losing.

From what I’ve read here, winning is only achieved by zerging, coverage, lack of skill, cheating, buying guilds, double teaming, using open field siege and getting transfers.

+1

Assassin X.8573:

Get to rank 1315 and you wont have a problem deciding where to put your points

Or 1015, while you will be spending all the other 300 on supply capacity.

Basket of Boxes.1976:

I couldn’t resist that llama finisher and I spent the last of my gems on it but I will probably just buy some next week and transfer back

Remember that you gonna be locked for 2 weeks if you transfer back.

Eh, I do my share of trolling the K-Trains on EotM sometimes… But its not good to do as red because the zerg will just take the workshop and melt the wall of your keep with 100+ devourers, making it useless to even try defend…

Oh but when I’m on blue, from bell tower to inside the keep, you can have sure that there might be a few superior ACs waiting for you up there…

The towers (Except maybe for Inferno’s Needle) are also nice places to hold with a small group…

ykyk.2740:

This is not a problem because usually the third server will attack the camping server at some point and they cannot hold both their home third and the extra home keep.

Tell that to servers that are severely outnumbered for many hours (sometimes for the whole day) down in the low tiers…

Should I remind you that I had to face 14 weeks of Sorrow’s Furnace having the ENTIRE ETERNAL BATTLEGROUNDS fortified AND wp’ed, because ET and FC couldn’t opose it?